Overview

• Excerpts and interviews published on 12–13 September detail Becker’s first-person account of his 2022 incarceration at HMP Wandsworth and HM Prison Huntercombe.
• He says fellow inmates threatened him over a €700 gambling debt that a friend later paid, which he believes prevented harm.
• Becker describes Wandsworth as terrifying and squalid, recalling constant screaming, freezing, mould-infested cells and calling the experience torture.
• He recounts a prison doctor asking if he was self-harming after shaving cuts, reports widespread access to drugs and homemade alcohol, and notes icy showers that required flip-flops.
• The former champion, convicted in April 2022 and deported to Germany after serving eight months, says he will never fully recover and remains marked by the experience.